Last year the U.S. experienced something that hasn’t definitively occurred since the Great Depression: More people moved out than moved in. The Trump administration has hailed the exodus—negative net migration—as the fulfillment of its promise to ramp up deportations and restrict new visas. Beneath the stormy optics of that immigration crackdown, however, lies a less-noticed reversal: America’s own citizens are leaving in record numbers, replanting themselves and their families in lands they find more affordable and safe.
And much of it is from university and stem. Whats funny is he is louding less border crossings but less border crossings is another indicator of a bad us economy.
Not really, only the top of STEM even has the opportunity to move. The universities of other nations simply don’t have the capacity to absorb the vast majority of American scientists. Building out that capacity would take a lot of time, and they’d end up with a lot of their own nationals in the field. America has only stolen so much international talent due to its failing primary education system paired with well funded university system.